Louisville-Notre Dame...5 overtimes...won by Notre Dame 104-101. Some of the sillyness that happened...

--Notre Dame was down 7 or 8 in the last minute of regulation (I had stopped paying attention). Jerian Grant scored 12 points in the final minute to personally send it to overtime.

--All this happened after Jack Cooley fouled out for ND with a little over 4 minutes to go in the game.

--Because of 3 foul-outs by ND players, Brey had to put in a guy, Garrick Sherman, who hadn't played in 4 of the last 6 games, including this one. He scored 17 points in the overtimes and had a wacky putback in the 4th OT to tie it.

--Louisville had the ball at the end of regulation and all 4 overtimes and only really had one decent look to win it. Then had it at the end of the 5th overtime and took a terrible shot. Russell Smith for Louisville will cost them in a NCAA Tournament game in March.

--Dick Vitale had to excuse himself to use the men's room in between the 3rd and 4th overtimes.

--Referee John Gaffney officiated the DePaul-Marquette game in Milwaukee earlier in the afternoon. Because one of the scheduled refs got snowed out in the Northeast, he was called in as a replacement. He certainly earned his pay.

How would you have liked to have been one of the people who left the arena when ND looked down & out in the last minute of regulation? At least they probably made it home in time to see the end.

KennyTheKangaroo wrote:there was a god shamgod sighting at the Providence-USF game last night. one of the all time great sports names.

Speaking of God Shammgod, I got me a copy of PC beating Duke in the tourney in 1997. Can't wait to watch it, last I saw it was live.

PC has been making a run lately, going to take running the table vs SJ, SH and at UConn then a couple in the BET to sniff the bubble, but they have clinched the bye on Day 1 and probably at least some postseason for the first time since '07. Liking Ed Cooley very much so far.

Not that this is shocking news, but effective July 1st, the Catholic 7 of DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John, Seton Hall and Villanova will officially split from the Big East to form their own conference. They will retain the name Big East while the current Big East will be renamed America 12.

Tim Thomasen wrote:Not that this is shocking news, but effective July 1st, the Catholic 7 of DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John, Seton Hall and Villanova will officially split from the Big East to form their own conference. They will retain the name Big East while the current Big East will be renamed America 12.